Chicago police say the 13-year-old girl had just gotten off the school bus Friday morning a few blocks from school when two men, dressed in all black and wearing ski masks to cover their face, jumped from a white van to grab her, getting ahold of her backpack and tearing it as she broke away. She then ran five blocks to school.

“I got very scared for her. We've been best friends for over a year now,” Jaylen said. “A few times I had to walk home, and if I have to walk home by myself, I don't feel safe, me walking home by myself.”

The little girl is okay, and police are still on the lookout for the two men responsible.